Christianity A History "Rome" 1/3

Michael Portillo investigates the legacy of the Roman Emperor Constantine - the man who transformed Christianity from a clandestine handful of followers of Jesus Christ into one of the world's great religions with a global reach of over two billion worshipers.

In 312AD Constantine is believed to have had some sort of religious epiphany or vision that converted him from Paganism - the traditional faith of Roman Emperors - to the new faith of Christianity. This transformed a persecuted cult into a religion of power and privilege within the Empire - with Constantine as head of both state and church.

Michael Portillo, a lapsed Catholic himself, uses his politician's mind to unravel the process by which Constantine and the church came together and questions how ruthless imperialism came to be reconciled with Christ's pacifist, altruistic values.

Portillo's conclusion is that once enthroned in a position of power, the church never looked back - and this has been a disaster for Christianity because 'power is for politicians and not for churchmen'.

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[Lhein33]

@MartianSanta 1. I cannot understand why & how you involve Constantine negatively in the spread of Christianity. Constantine simply made Christianity a LEGAL RELIGION by stopping the persecutions. He didn't force anybody to become a christian, he didn't make paganism illegal. He remained pontifex maximus of paganism in all his life (he was baptised shortly before his death for strictly personal reasons).

2. There were millions of Christians, theologians, martyrs, clergymen etc before Constantine

[ACKmiecik]

Thumbs down due to too much footage of narrator and missing info on how the Jews played into the mix.

[MartianSanta]

@brokless Jesus gave the message, but he died on the cross

it was people after he died who spread it

if not for Constantine and later Charlemagne, Europeans may have remained pagans

that's fact

you are to dumb to understand that

[MartianSanta]

much better then the previous narrator... had to stop in the middle of the previous episode

i here enough about Judaism at home how Judaism is great when i was in school, how Judaism on TV... this is a documentary about christian religion

Jews, can't l live with them, but sure as hell wish you could live with out them

[brokless]

WAIT WAIT a minute there, so you are saying that Caesar the person who slaved millions, if he never converted christianity they're would be obviously no christian, because Jesus Fuck up and didnt know how to spread his religion.

am I right? I think you guy should believe that Caesar is your prophet.